Apennine
/ˈæpənaɪn/adjective
Apennine is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the Apennines” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-E-N-N-I-N-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Apennine mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the Apennines
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Apennine?
- /ˈæpənaɪn/
Apennine has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Apennine?
Apennine appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Apennine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the Apennines:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | apenínico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.